MarinArts

https://www.marinarts.org/ev/local-julia-ross-recent-works/ See the current online exhibit at the Loft at O'Hanlon: recent works by Julia Ross. Artist's Roundtable Discussion is coming up on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on Zoom. After a lifetime of watercolors, the artist has switched to oils with renewed inspiration! #artexhibition #onlineartshow #oilpainting #soloexhibition... Follow this page for more items about the arts in Marin County!

This year's DocLands Documentary Film Festival is underway, and features four very special music-themed films! All streaming on demand through Sun 5/16, one with in-theater screenings coming up Thursday: - Summer of Soul (in-theater Thu 5/13, 4:00 & 7:30 pm) https://www.marinarts.org/ev/local-doclands-summer-of-soul/ - The Sparks Brothers https://www.marinarts.org//local-doclands-the-sparks-brot/... - Karen Dalton: In My Own Time https://www.marinarts.org//local-doclands-karen-dalton-in/ - No Ordinary Man https://www.marinarts.org/e/local-doclands-no-ordinary-man/ Check out the descriptions these are unique films you won't see elsewhere! #filmfestival #documentaries #streamingfilm #documentaryfilm #musicfilm Follow this page for more items about the arts in Marin County!

https://www.marinarts.org/categories/in-person/ In-Person arts events are coming back more frequently in Marin County! We've created a dedicated listing of them on our calendar at MarinArts, so you can browse or search them specifically. Take a look at these events, and more:... - Marin Open Studios second weekend, and the Gallery at Town Center until Tuesday - Art Exhibitions at select galleries and museums, with covid-safe protocols - Film Screenings at Smith Rafael (including selected DocLands) and Lark Drive-In at The Village at Corte Madera - SF Opera Drive-In at Marin Center, one more week! - Live Music outdoors now, and live music indoors later this year - Summer Camps from Studio4Art and Marin Shakespeare Company #inpersonevents #artsinmarin #getoutofthehouse Follow this page for more items about the arts in Marin County!

https://www.marinarts.org//local-the-re-education-of-fern/ Tonight and tomorrow only! A free virtual reading of a new original play from Ross Alternative Works: The Re-Education of Fernando Morales by Justin P. Lopez, directed by Meryn MacDougall. Followed by post-reading discussion with playwright, director, and cast members. An important, brave work. #newtheatre #VirtualReading #rossvalleyplayers #rossalternativeworks ... Follow this page for more items about the arts in Marin County!

Read this story from the Pulitzer Center featuring Marin Shakes and their Shakespeare in Prison program. See link in comment below for their full lineup of Social Justice programs, and another link to their profile on MarinArts, including the lineup of summer camps on offer this year! #marinshakespearecompany #prisonarts #socialjusticeprogram Follow this page for more items about the arts in Marin County!

https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Editor-s-Picks--Marin-O Check out this week's newsletter with Editor's Picks! Marin Open Studios 2nd weekend is coming up, also a special discount offer for CFI's DocLands Film Festival online pass! Picks include auditions for 'Til Dawn (Youth in Arts), Bay Area Jazz Mobile live at Marin Country Mart, Seager Gray's "Art of the Book" and MarinMOCA's "Altered Book" exhibits, and more! #DocLands #documentaryfilm #filmfestival #openstudios #ma...rinopenstudios #acapellamusic #auditions #livejazz #artexhibition #bookart #youthinarts #seagergraygallery #marinmoca #bookpassage #saraburgess #californiafilminstitute Follow this page for more items about the arts in Marin County!

https://www.marinarts.org//artist-call-altered-book-exhib/ MarinMOCA has opened their Call for Art for the 2021 Altered Book exhibition and fundraiser, deadline for entry (agreement form) is Feb. 19. The exhibit will be in-person April 24 - May 23, with an online silent auction. Awards jurors will again include Mary Austin and Donna Seager! They will also give a book arts talk on opening day. #marinmoca #alteredbook #bookartobjects #maryaustin #donnaseager #fundraisers #artexhibition

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com//review-in-now-what-essay Review of a quick-turnaround book just released, a compendium of 38 essays on what to expect as our country moves forward. Book Passage will feature the editor and two essayists (including, yes, the Mooch) in a virtual book talk on Feb 2 at 2pm, see link to our event listing in comment below. #bookpassage #booktalk #livestreaming #livestreams

https://hyperallergic.com//the-national-gallery-of-art-ac/ The National Gallery in D.C. has acquired nine quilts from the artists at Gee's Bend as the highlight of a larger acquisition recently. Marin's own Sarah Shepard Gallery and Art Advisory had an exhibition of Gee's Bend prints in summer 2020, as well as including one of Mary Lee Bendolph's prints in her current group show. Both were in collaboration with Paulson Fontaine Press where the prints were made. Shepard can help place Gee's Bend works as part of her Art Advisory services. See links in comments below. #geesbend #geesbendquilts #maryleebendolph #nationalgallery #sarahshepardgallery

Congratulations to award winners for MarinMOCA's "Here and Now" exhibition, currently on view! For more information, see our event listing (link in comment below). #artexhibition #localartists #marinmoca

Congrats to Alter Theater for their production of #GhostsofBogota making it into Bohemian's Top productions of 2020! See our past event listing (Jan-Feb 2020) for the show for more information and links to the AT website, in the link in the comment below. AT reports that playwright Diana Burbano has just started work on a new commission for them! #altertheater #storefronttheater

https://www.marinarts.org//local-george-winston-livestrea/ We'll all welcome some good vibes this weekend. George Winston plays a special livestreamed concert on his YouTube channel on Sunday, Nov 8 at 4pm a fundraiser for the Dance Palace in Point Reyes! (Live-only, there will be no recording of this stream.) Please enjoy the concert, and please donate to the Dance Palace. #georgewinston #dancepalace

Here's a last-minute bookstore event from Point Reyes Books and Orion Magazine: writer/activists Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams will have an online conversation about the election on Wednesday at 7pm, including discussion of Orion's new anthology of political writing. Can't get better perspective than that! #pointreyesbooks #orionmagazine #rebeccasolnit #terrytempestwilliams #themostradicalthingyoucando

Here's a roundup of holiday events this weekend, see comments below for individual links! O'Hanlon Online Salon, Marin Theater Company online storytelling class for kids, San Rafael Day of the Dead celebrations, Marin Center Drive-Thru Spooktacular, Lark Drive-in movies! Have a spooktacular time! #halloween #dayofthedead #diadelosmuertos

https://www.marinarts.org/e/local-2020-bioneers-conference/ Earlybird pricing for this year's Virtual Bioneers (Dec 5-6, 12-13) is available through midnight Saturday, Oct. 31! Buy your ticket now for as low as $16, and unlock wisdom from innovators leading movements around issues like #ClimateChange, #IndigenousRights, #RacialJustice, women’s leadership, intelligence in nature and more. #bioneers

https://www.marinarts.org//san-geronimo-band-day-of-the-d/ San Geronimo the Roots Americana band from West Marin is playing a Day of the Dead concert at Terrapin's Beach Park, Friday at 5:00-7:00 pm! #terrapincrossroads #dayofthedead #americanamusic

The Belrose has costumes for rent, and now for sale as well! If you're not covered for Halloween, check this out! #halloweencostumes #thebelrose

https://www.marinarts.org//call-for-entry-creative-youth-/ Student Musicians This is Your Chance to be Heard! The Creative Youth Celebration is looking to recognize and reward teenage musicians both performers and composers. Prize money will be awarded! Enter by Oct. 31.... Also accepting submissions in original art, photography, and film. #creativeyouthcelebration #bayareacreativefoundation #studentart #artcontest

The Lark Drive-In at The Village in Corte Madera is all Halloween themed this week! Lots to choose from (even though a couple are already sold out), with Rocky Horror capping it all off Sat at 9pm! All from the safety of your own car. #larkdrivein #larktheater #halloween2020 #quarantinehalloween #drivein #halloweennight

https://www.marinarts.org/maria-bennett-landscape-painter-/ From UPTAKE VOl. 3: West Marin painter Maria Bennett had a breakthrough to escape an artistic block arising from contending with the pandemic and wildfires: creating marbled papers for her canvas. Read curator/commissioner Jennifer Wechsler's depiction of that story, and see examples of Bennett's new works! #pandemicart #mariabennett #jenniferwechsler

The complete production is coming up: The Breath Project, inaugural festival co-presented by MTC with 23 other theatre companies. This weekend! #thebreathproject #marintheatercompany #bipocartists

https://www.marinarts.org/dance-in-covid-how-julie-adam-da/ From UPTAKE Vol. 3: two dance companies are finding ways to present their work virtually by filming and streaming during the pandemic. Julia Adam Dance, Alonzo King LINES. #juliaadamdance #alonzokinglines #virtualdance See also: Julia Adam's unique choreography for The Nutcracker, produced by Diablo Ballet and streamed from the Lesher Center, Nov 13-15: https://www.marinarts.org//diablo-ballet-presents-the-nut/

Artists and Arts Organizations, listen up! https://www.facebook.com/CaliforniansfortheArts/posts/2657036864512481 This is an important survey of creative industry individuals and businesses: help Californians for the Arts gather information to advocate for more resources for the arts! #californiansforthearts #artssurvey #covidimpact

https://www.marinarts.org/marin-mixtape-volume-iii-live-mu/ From UPTAKE Vol. 3: there are pockets of live music finding ways to persist within the constraints of the pandemic, with outdoor performances. A mobile stage, music at restaurants (beer gardens and pools), on the waterfront for an audience in boats, live streaming from a backyard stage, entertaining folks on the street at a local food bank! Listen to the playlist of artists associated with these venues. #dirtycello #hopmonktavern #breadandroses #rickeysrestaurant #wolfisland #thebackyardsessions

Check out a whole walking tour of store-window altars for Día de los Muertos along 4th St. and adjoining blocks in downtown San Rafael! Through the entire month of October. Art Works Downtown has four displays, and they are joined by several more blocks of displays up and down the street, plus another large group at Pickleweed Library. #dayofthedead #diadelosmuertos #downtownsanrafael #artworksdowntown #pickleweedlibrary